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I recently was given a small USB flash drive as an advertising gimmick. When I plug it in, only one drive appears: a CD drive with 42kb used (just an autorun.inf file which launches the manufacturer's website). I know U3 drives also appear as CD drives...
Started by mmyers on
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by 7 people.
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The device identifies as a composite device containing two children - one for the CD drive and one, if I wanted to do the same thing for myself, how would I make it appear as a CD drive?
Basically same it as a USB device ....
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I'm trying to install Fedora on a really old (1999-2000) PC, even though I have set it to boot the CD/DVD drive first it wont boot from the CD, I know the CD 'im using is bootable, do you think that the CD might be too new or something?
Thanks!
Started by Bubby4j on
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by 4 people.
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I see this as a VERY common problem....
CD Booting was still relatively new, and generally reliedIf the machine is from 1999-2000, I would say the most likely cause is that the optical drive is broken.
Only from a floppy or hard drive.
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Problem: Asus EE (no CD drive) in disuse with forgotten password and personal information
Question: How can I remove the content for sure?
Started by Heo on
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by 6 people.
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I always keep a flash....
Use the "Linux System Rescue CD" and type/run: DBAN (secure deletion) to erase/destroy data_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
Boot off a USB flash drive with Ubuntu, run gparted to wipe the main drive.
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My baby brother keeps messing around with the CD drive. I tried the software from http://superuser.com/questions/8770/disable-cd-eject-button-on-laptop but it didn't work on Windows 7. I'm using a desktop computer with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Started by Steven on
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by 4 people.
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If you have small children, children like to open....
I just tried CD/DVD Drive Locker and it worked on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
A CD/DVD drive from a drop-down list, lock or unlock it, and open or close the drive.
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When I insert a DVD or CD, I want to programmatically know what type of media(DVD or CD) is it.
Started by ThorDivDev on
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by 3 people.
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The only thing you can do is via the FileSystemView and detect whether a certain file is a cd.
Although a one can perform an educated guess Java.
Dvd drive but not if it contains a CD or DVD as media.
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Is there a "universal" way of how you can make a bootable USB drive out of a bootable dvd or cd? What makes a USB drive bootable? What makes a dvd and cd bootable?
For example there is a program called UNetBootin which can make bootable USB drives, but...
Started by Svish on
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by 6 people.
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A USB Thumbdrive is just a hard drive, and if it's got the right boot files and....
Bart's mkbt it on a USB drive that's bootable.
What makes a CD or DVD drive bootable see this post on the El Torito (CD-ROM standard).
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Dell PowerEdge 1600SC Server won't boot from Fedora 12 DVD in the drive because it only supports CDs as I found out after the fact. I'm a complete novice @ servers, so if you need more detail, let me know, and I'll try to provide it.
This server is around...
Started by studiohack23 on
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by 4 people.
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Have you tried booting this server via a CD? Even an Ubuntu (or Fedora, for that matter) live-CD (like this one for $15) and a known-good DVD drive, and setting the BIOS to boot from a USB drive and they will....
drives.
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Hey, I just found a solution to the CD not found error when starting Conquests - I was running ot from a normal DVD-ROM drive, and didn't have any virtual imaging software. I went to Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->IDE controller...
Started by DarthS1d on
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by 12 people.
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Thanks....
Wonder if the fact that I am using a DVD-RW drive is an issue?
Saw some mention corner...
Problem and it error's "Insert CD".
PAtch installed perfectly....but now, the game asks me to insert the CD-ROM in the drive.
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All of a sudden Windows 7 (64 bit) lost all DVD and CD-ROM drives. It worked fine for about a month, then I don't know what happened.
At first I thought it was a hardware problem - that my DVD-ROM had malfunctioned. But then I realized that Windows 7 ...
Started by M. Nilsson on
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by 4 people.
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Sometimes these are related to CD\DVD Burner programs and sometime, uninstalls and updates sometimes fail....
I've seen serious problems with CD\DVD ROM drives that have been caused by various file system filter drivers becoming corrupt.
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How can I discover any USB storage devices and/or CD/DVD writers available at a given time (using C# .Net2.0).
I would like to present users with a choice of devices onto which a file can be stored for physically removal - i.e. not the hard drive.
Started by Stuart Helwig on
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by 4 people.
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NoRootDirectory: The drive does not have a root directory....
From MSDN:
Unknown: The type of drive is unknown.
Ram: The drive is a RAM disk are available.
CDRom: The drive is an optical disc device, such as a CD or DVD-ROM.
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